Still living from pillar to post. I’ll protect the name of one motel we stayed at briefly, following the second flood of my basement condo. The toilet must have been built for potty training and the door would not open or close when one sat on the throne. Since I am not of potty training age, I could not arise from that throne but had to go on my knees, crawling out into the main room. BUT from my position on the floor, by the bed, I could not arise, not even with the aid of my daughter. Finally I asked her to call the police. She did and they connected with a free EMT and lo and behold three hefty weightlifters appeared and lifted me to the security of my motel bed. Two of the three wore uniforms which I thought were police uniforms, and the third was a young professional in training with a jolly disposition. I had thought to call the police because not long before, a groundhog had gotten his head under, but not out, of, strong fencing around a locked trash enclosure. A neighbor knew to call for help. Two men I assumed were police had wirecutters with them and also the strength to lift the edge. See that grateful groundhog run! He had been trapped with his head under the wire for more than a day.

I’m still out of my condo but this time staying with a friend in her updated trailer home that has an adult potty. Recently there was major sewer work on West Union, by my condo, and they suspect workmen may have sent a wrong sewer into and through my condo. I finally got my computer back from the condo. Thus endeth my personal report. Now for real news:

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1995 NEWS/VIEWS on WOMEN — We found a March 21, 1955 Time magazine in the library’s free book shelf : From A Piece of Equipment in The Farm Quarterly: “When a farmer buys a cow, wrote Farm Editor R.J. McGinnis, he looks at her long and carefully, goes over her point by point and weighs his pocketbook against her virtues and her faults. He should be no less calculating when he takes a wife…This flint-hearted approach ….will appear to many, especially the female sex, as a way of saying that a wife should be regarded as a piece of farm equipment. That is quite right.” (Other good remarks but some more proper wording is suddenly suggested by Word Press’s Gutenberg AI, I presume: 12 ways to show deep respect for your wife....Go figure.)

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OH, THAT’s WHY!

I was puzzled by the sudden drive against aliens (and those not so alien) in recent months, and still am.

As I’ve come to understand, via The Week of May 2, 2025, that Musk wants to seed the earth with more human beings of high intelligence “before the apocalypse.” I wonder if he assumes the high intelligence should come from the male or female parent. If that’s the case, why is he so against public school and university survival? Does intelligence mean being uneducated? Did he select the women of his fourteen children on the basis of intelligence or fecundity? Maybe hooking the brain up to AI would take care of all that? I hear that’s being developed.

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Pope Leo will bless same-sex unions: LGBTQ Nation Newsletter

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OH DEAR…

Did Netanyahu really nominate our president for the Nobel Peace Prize, or is that a Saturday Night show joke? I can’t tell these days.

ANSWER: Jill Dennison says it’s true…INCIDENTLY, read her blog today! (About our 902 U.S. billionaires)

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Poem by Milton Ploghoft, 2013:

DESTINATIONS

Where will we go for the sweet bye and bye?

No doubt we will aim for a Heaven on high.

But astrophysicists with views telescopic

Suggest that man’s gaze is gravely myopic.

There is plenty of space beyond cloud and star

But how to prepare from that which we now are?

Will eating and breathing be as we know here?

And will we bump into old friends so dear?

Will we greet kin from centuries ago

Or meet only family whom we so well know?

So many questions, who can tell

Will all the doubters go straight to Hell?